The mound measures roughly ten metres east to west and nine metres north to south, rising to about 0.85 metres, with a characteristic central depression that marks it out as a fulacht fia. These are among the most common prehistoric monuments in Ireland, understood to be the remains of outdoor cooking or processing sites, where stones were heated in fire and then dropped into a water-filled trough to bring it to the boil. The shattered, heat-cracked stones that accumulate from repeated use form the distinctive horseshoe-shaped or irregular mounds that survive in their thousands across the Irish landscape, most dating to the Bronze Age.

This particular site carried on quietly beneath the tree canopy until around 1995, when a forestry drain was cut directly through the mound, exposing its interior and disturbing the charcoal-enriched soil that had built up over millennia. The damage was recorded by Johnson in 1998. In a gesture of partial mitigation, a ten-metre buffer zone was left unplanted around the mound, meaning the monument itself sits in a small clearing even as the plantation presses in on all sides. That buffer offers the site a degree of protection from root disturbance and further forestry activity, though it does little to make the place easy to reach. By 2005, dense undergrowth had made access to the forest effectively impossible for surveyors, and the site remains tucked away behind that wall of vegetation.